Castel Novale

Castel Novale, also called Castel Ried (Schloss Ried in German) is a castle without many elements that characterize it as such, located north of Bolzano, at the entrance to the Val Sarentino, but in the municipality of Renon.

History

Behind the famous Castel Roncolo the valley opens up to a small basin, immediately after which it narrows again. The castle made use of this basin, which was of strategic importance in the past. In the Middle Ages the walls were bathed by the waters of the Talvera, which today flows not even twenty meters away. Castel Novale can boast of being one of those few castles never conquered.

The complex was presumably built around 1200 and expanded in the 13th century with houses, a menagerie and a chapel. Towards the end of the 13th century the small castle was in the possession of the Vangas: it was here that Alberto Vanga took refuge, after having lost all his other possessions. He sold it himself, to Ludwig of Brandenburg, future husband of Margaret Maultasch, in 1307.

The Habsburgs of Austria, who succeeded the Tyrolean counts from 1363, invested their officials with the castle and its judgment, for example in 1465 Lenhart Ortwegker, installed ym Rit bey Botzin. Again at the behest of the Habsburgs at the end of the century. XVI the castle hosted until his death the last voivode of Wallachia, Peter V the Lame (Petru Șchiopul), who escaped the Turks and after his death buried in the Franciscan Church of Bolzano.

Today the well-preserved complex is privately owned and therefore cannot be visited except exceptionally.

Note

^ Hannes Obermair, Bozen Süd – Bolzano North. Schriftlichkeit und urkundliche Überlieferung der Stadt Bozen bis 1500, vol. 2, Bolzano, City of Bolzano, 2008, pp. 133-134, nos. 1098, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8.

Bibliography

(DE) Art. Ried in Oswald Trapp (ed.), Tiroler Burgenbuch, vol. V: Sarntal, Bolzano-Innsbruck-Vienna, Athesia-Tyrolia, 1981. ISBN 978-8870140361

( DE ) Thomas Bitterli-Waldvogel, Südtiroler Burgenkarte, Bolzano, ed. Frasnelli-Keitsch, 1995. ISBN ISBN 88-85176-12-7

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Rafenstein Castle

Castel Roncolo

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